The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 259 - 9 Questions For Robert Mueller

00:00:00.000 The special counsel gets aggressive and President Trump takes on joint defense agreements with

00:00:04.900 former staffers. But while the mainstream media focus on trivial details, we will turn the focus

00:00:11.200 back onto the special counsel investigation and ask nine questions that Robert Mueller must answer

00:00:17.200 to prove that his investigation is anything more than the partisan hit job that it appears to be.

00:00:22.620 Then, President Trump threatens to shut down the government over the border wall. Great idea.

00:00:26.520 Democrats try to paint Ivanka Trump as Hillary Clinton. I'll abstain from the obvious jokes that

00:00:32.500 come from that headline. Texas mother tries to castrate her son. And John Bolton sheds some

00:00:37.640 sanity on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. A lot to get to. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael

00:00:42.240 Knowles Show. Only when I am on the road and it is very inconvenient for me do the news headlines just

00:00:55.780 explode. There is so much more out here with the Bob Mueller investigation and a lot of questions

00:01:01.360 for him that Republicans and conservatives should start asking. We should stop defending,

00:01:06.080 start going on the offense. I'll have nine questions that he has to answer. But first,

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00:03:00.340 this Mueller investigation. What they are trying to do is just totally confuse you with a bunch

00:03:06.540 of ridiculous, unnecessary details and meaningless, trivial, interpersonal relationships among Roger

00:03:13.840 Stone and Paul Manafort and this guy and that guy and Jerome Corsi and all of this. And so you get

00:03:19.460 this deluge of headlines from CNN or wherever and you think, oh gosh, I don't know what's happening,

00:03:24.480 but you know, this side has a point and that side has a point. We'll see where the investigation goes.

00:03:28.620 This is their strategy. All of the questions that are being asked right now should be asked of the

00:03:34.980 independent, of the special counsel rather of Bob Mueller. What is the issue right now? Just to clear

00:03:40.040 it up, the Mueller investigation is getting very aggressive. There is word that's been leaked to

00:03:44.860 the press of a joint defense agreements between Jerome Corsi and Donald Trump, that right-wing writer

00:03:51.340 and journalist and sort of conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi and Donald Trump of agreements where Paul

00:03:58.160 Manafort now is apparently briefing the Trump team on what Mueller has been asking him. You'll

00:04:03.340 remember a little while ago, Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, entered into a plea agreement

00:04:08.860 with the special counsel. So he said he'd cooperate in exchange for getting out of jail a little bit

00:04:13.800 early. Now we find out it seems that the Manafort team has been briefing the Trump legal defense team

00:04:19.800 on all of the questions and all of the tactics that Bob Mueller is using. So Paul Manafort,

00:04:25.080 classic Washington lobbyist, looks like he's playing both sides right now. When it came out

00:04:29.820 that Paul Manafort entered into a plea agreement, I was a little confused. Paul Manafort seemed like

00:04:34.380 the kind of guy, especially with a name like Manafort, you know, he's the kind of guy who

00:04:38.300 will deny till you die. He doesn't want to be a rat. He doesn't want to turn on his friends. He's been 0.97

00:04:43.620 a GOP operative since he was in the womb, since the 70s and 80s. So I was a little surprised. Now it

00:04:49.440 looks like he actually was feeding some information to the Trump team. So that's pretty interesting.

00:04:53.760 They're going to try to blow this out of proportion and say that a joint defense agreement

00:04:58.100 between one guy being investigated and another guy being investigated is nefarious and it's wrong and

00:05:04.560 it's illegal. None of that is true. This is a very common occurrence, especially when the same

00:05:10.220 prosecutor is going after a bunch of different people. Very common and it looks like that's what's

00:05:14.240 happening here. So what is the issue? Why do they need these joint defense agreements?

00:05:18.880 To catch you up, we went through this a little bit yesterday. Right now, Roger Stone, long time

00:05:25.660 GOP operative and advisor to Donald Trump. Roger Stone is under fire because he tweeted out,

00:05:32.220 quote, trust me, it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel. Referring to John Podesta,

00:05:38.540 the head of the Hillary Clinton campaign. He tweeted that out one week before WikiLeaks released

00:05:44.580 John Podesta's hacked emails. So now the spotlight is on Roger Stone. It's on Roger Stone's confidants,

00:05:51.300 Jerome Corsi, other people he worked with, over how he knew that WikiLeaks had those hacked emails.

00:05:58.640 Now, what Roger Stone is saying is he knew that John Podesta would get his because Jerome Corsi had

00:06:09.660 written a memo about John Podesta's lobbying work. So what Roger Stone is saying is, oh, that tweet

00:06:15.240 and Podesta's time in the barrel, that doesn't refer to hacked emails. That refers to all of his

00:06:21.120 nefarious lobbying work that's going to eventually land him in hot water. Jerome Corsi says this is BS.

00:06:27.420 Corsi says that nine days after Stone sent that tweet, Roger Stone called asking for a backstory.

00:06:33.520 He said, Jerome, you got to help me out. They're going to go after me for this WikiLeaks tweet.

00:06:37.260 Make up a memo about John Podesta that I can say was what I was referring to in the tweet.

00:06:43.860 Okay. That's what Corsi says. Roger Stone typically denies this. And he says that Jerome Corsi is just

00:06:50.720 contradicting Roger Stone because he's being squeezed. So you got these two guys, one who was

00:06:55.780 a Trump advisor for a long time, another guy who's a more fringy right-wing figure who's met Trump,

00:07:00.480 I guess, a couple of times. Neither of them are especially trustworthy. So you've got to read between

00:07:06.780 the lines. And really their trustworthiness is beyond the point because the fact that the

00:07:11.700 Mueller investigation is going after them is the real issue here. Why? What's at stake? Why they're

00:07:17.600 not going after Democrats? But just listen to the language. So this is Jerome Corsi. In his denial,

00:07:22.460 he says, quote, what I construct and what I testified to the grand jury was I believed I was creating a

00:07:30.640 cover story for Roger because Roger wanted to explain this tweet. Okay. What I construct and what I

00:07:39.360 testified to the... So he's not, he's not emphatically saying this is what happened. He's saying what I

00:07:44.100 construct. That's a curious choice of words. Maybe he's not telling the whole story. Roger Stone, for his

00:07:49.820 part, says this, quote, I steadfastly maintain that Jerry, Jerome Corsi, who had been researching the

00:07:56.820 Podesta brothers, brought their business dealings to my attention. And that is what prompted my tweet.

00:08:03.100 Now, that is a true statement. It's a true statement that Roger Stone steadfastly maintains

00:08:09.460 this. The question is, is it true? Is Roger Stone telling the truth when he maintains that? The

00:08:15.100 construction of that sentence also a little mealy-mouthed with the words. We have what I

00:08:19.260 construct. Okay. That's true. And what I steadfastly maintain. Okay. That's true. Who's telling the truth?

00:08:25.140 We don't know. Listen to this from Jerome Corsi, though. He says later on, by the way, the special

00:08:31.300 counsel knew that I was creating a cover story for Roger. They can virtually tell my keystrokes

00:08:38.060 on that computer. So clearly they took Jerome Corsi's computer. They're saying this document

00:08:43.920 was created on this date. They can tell what he was doing. He's been now under investigation for a

00:08:48.780 while. I do not bring this up to go after Jerome Corsi or Roger Stone. They can take care of

00:08:56.160 themselves. What I bring this up to as a preface to is why are we even talking about these guys in

00:09:03.020 the first place? Why are we talking about Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, conservative writers,

00:09:09.620 media figures? We're talking about them because Donald Trump won the presidency and he wasn't supposed

00:09:14.180 to. Hillary was supposed to win. They had all decided it. The FBI decided it. Peter Strzok decided

00:09:19.940 Hillary was supposed to win. Obama said Hillary was supposed to win. The administrative state,

00:09:25.780 they were, that's what was supposed to happen. And then Donald Trump came in and messed up their plans.

00:09:30.740 And then Donald Trump won. And now we've got endless investigations into figures who are peripheral,

00:09:36.400 who are ancillary to the campaign, who are, they're just digging for anything to get these guys,

00:09:42.220 to punish them for committing the unforgivable sin of working for Donald Trump. So that's fine.

00:09:47.040 One issue here is that even in the conservative media, people are harping on this. I mean,

00:09:53.680 we've got to cover it. This is a major story. You got to talk, but people are spending all of their

00:09:57.380 time talking about it. They're not spending any of their time talking about Bob Mueller or the FBI

00:10:02.240 or the Obama appointed officials who were going in there, going after Trump from the early days of

00:10:08.500 the campaign. Why not? Why aren't we doing that? You know, Ronald Reagan said, if you're explaining,

00:10:15.800 you're losing. What he means by that is if you're on defense, if you're playing political defense

00:10:20.040 and you're just answering the allegations of the other side, you are losing because you're

00:10:24.780 playing on their turf. You're playing by their rules and they're going to get you. The classic

00:10:29.380 political line is, when did you stop beating your wife? Excuse me, Senator, when did you stop beating

00:10:34.260 your wife? Any answer you give justifies their premise. We shouldn't do that. So I have nine

00:10:40.900 questions for Robert Mueller and the special counsel because this special counsel investigation

00:10:46.000 stinks to high heaven. The whole Russia investigation stinks to high heaven and they need to answer nine

00:10:51.300 questions before we can conclude that this is not just the partisan hit job that it certainly seems

00:10:58.040 to be. Here's the first question. May 23rd, 2016. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce

00:11:04.060 Orr's wife, Nellie Orr, goes on the payroll of Fusion GPS. You'll remember Fusion GPS is the political

00:11:11.740 shop behind the Steele dossier, that dossier with all that scintillating false information about Donald

00:11:17.900 Trump. So Nellie Orr, the wife of the Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Orr, is working on anti-Trump

00:11:24.660 opposition research. Bruce Orr did not disclose this major conflict of interest. Why not? Why didn't he

00:11:32.820 disclose it? Did he forget? Did it not occur to him that this was a major conflict of interest?

00:11:38.720 Did Fusion GPS know who Nellie Orr was? I think they probably did. Her last name's Orr. First question,

00:11:45.280 why did he not disclose that? Second question, May 2016. Low-level staffer George Papadopoulos

00:11:52.500 tells Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that he knows that Russia has dirt on Hillary Clinton.

00:11:58.760 Then the Australian diplomat Downer passes this information along to the U.S. Embassy.

00:12:05.080 What were the circumstances of that meeting? Why was George Papadopoulos meeting with this Australian

00:12:09.620 diplomat, Alexander Downer? Who set that up? Who invited whom to that meeting? What was the meeting

00:12:17.340 about? What was the ostensible purpose? Maybe George Papadopoulos just liked the cut of Alexander

00:12:24.500 Downer's jib and wanted to have a drink with him. Or maybe there was a purpose to that meeting on the

00:12:30.140 part of Downer or on the part of U.S. intelligence services or on the part of U.S. elected officials.

00:12:34.640 Maybe that meeting was a setup. I'm not saying it was. I just don't know. What were the circumstances

00:12:39.680 of that meeting? That's the second question. Third question, June 2016. The FBI applies for a FISA

00:12:46.740 warrant. A FISA warrant is the warrant that you need to surveil and to monitor Americans. They want

00:12:53.360 a FISA warrant to monitor four members of the Trump campaign. The FISA court judge denied those

00:13:00.860 requests. What sequence of events led to that request and why was that request denied? You might say,

00:13:11.600 oh, well, they didn't have enough dirt. The FISA court judge didn't think they had enough dirt on the

00:13:15.320 Trump campaign people. Okay. Well, first question, why were they ordering it in the first place?

00:13:20.420 Second question, why was it denied? And a lot of people don't know this. In the history of the

00:13:25.060 FISA court, there have been 40,668 requests as of the end of 2017. Do you know how many of those

00:13:32.720 requests were denied? 85. Not 8,500 or an 85,000 request denied. Out of over 40,000 requests that were

00:13:43.280 granted. Compared to that, there were only 85 that were denied. How come four of those 85 were this

00:13:50.220 particular request to monitor people on the Trump campaign? That must have been a pretty weak

00:13:55.180 application. That must have been a pretty weak, shaky grounds to monitor those Trump campaign members.

00:14:01.500 So if it was so shaky that the FISA court judge would, in a very, very rare instance, not grant the

00:14:08.300 FISA request, why was the request made in the first place? Who ordered that request? It is

00:14:16.340 virtually impossible to have your FISA request denied. So who made it? What were the circumstances?

00:14:21.720 They didn't have good evidence. So what was that about? Was it political? Was it a way simply to

00:14:25.780 monitor the Trump campaign as it certainly looks like? Good question. Thank you, Michael. Good question.

00:14:30.380 All right. That's the third question. Fourth question. June, 2016. The DNC's computer system

00:14:35.620 is hacked. Yet, the DNC refuses to allow the FBI to examine the computer systems.

00:14:43.680 Why wouldn't the DNC let the FBI examine those systems? This was a hack. Apparently,

00:14:48.900 hacking was a big issue in the 2016 campaign. The FBI has been running roughshod over Republicans,

00:14:55.160 over the elected president, over his campaign staffers. Why did the DNC refuse to allow the FBI

00:15:00.240 to examine those systems? And why did the FBI take no for an answer? The FBI has no problem kicking

00:15:05.580 down Paul Manafort's door in the middle of the night, has no problem seizing Jerome Corsi's

00:15:09.560 computer, monitoring his keystrokes. So why would they take no for an answer from the DNC? And what

00:15:16.180 was the DNC hiding? I don't know. But it seems like there are a lot of shady things going on and a lot

00:15:22.680 of rare occurrences. Obviously, shady things go on in the federal government, sure. But it seems like

00:15:26.860 these are particularly shady. So shady that they drew the attention of a FISA court judge and so on.

00:15:33.700 Sixth question. July 2016, Peter Strzok opens a counterintelligence investigation into Russian

00:15:43.980 meddling in the election. This investigation ostensibly was spurred by George Papadopoulos'

00:15:51.480 meeting with the Australian diplomat. That was July 31st, I believe, 2016. Fifteen days later,

00:15:57.840 Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page about the insurance policy in case Trump is elected. So you've got

00:16:05.240 Peter Strzok. He's not some low-level staffer, not some low-level FBI guy. He is the man. He is the guy

00:16:11.100 who's opening this counterintelligence investigation. Not a criminal investigation, counterintelligence

00:16:16.000 investigation into Russian meddling. It's apparently based on this bizarre meeting where George

00:16:21.220 Papadopoulos meets with a diplomat. The diplomat instantly goes running to U.S. intelligence.

00:16:25.660 So what is this insurance policy? What does that insurance policy have to do with the meeting?

00:16:32.240 What does that insurance policy have to do with the investigation? The timing is really suspect

00:16:36.900 and it stinks to high heaven. Seventh question. In September, no, sixth question. I don't know. I

00:16:42.640 lost count. My next question. In September, the FBI hires the writer of that infamous Steele dossier,

00:16:49.200 Christopher Steele. The point of contact here is Bruce Orr. So you've got this guy, Christopher Steele.

00:16:56.860 He's an ex-intelligence guy in Britain. He compiles this dossier on behalf of private clients,

00:17:03.340 on behalf of the DNC and Hillary Clinton and other people. And then the FBI hires him.

00:17:09.300 And his point of contact there is Bruce Orr, whose wife Nellie Orr is working with Fusion GPS, 0.99

00:17:13.440 which ordered the damn dossier in the first place. A lot of people sleeping in bed together, 0.98

00:17:19.000 well, literally in the case of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and figuratively in the case of Bruce

00:17:23.420 Orr, Nellie Orr, Christopher Steele, and the FBI. At this point, I still think Bruce Orr has not

00:17:28.500 disclosed publicly that his wife is working for Fusion GPS. So they hire him. And now, so at this

00:17:34.920 point, they've got Christopher Steele on the payroll. Why don't, why doesn't Bruce Orr disclose

00:17:40.360 that his wife is working with Fusion GPS? At this point, we can no longer say, oh, he forgot.

00:17:47.080 Oh, it slipped his mind. I mean, we could never say that anyway, but maybe give him the benefit

00:17:50.740 of the doubt. At this point, we certainly cannot say that. So why didn't he disclose it? What was

00:17:55.120 he trying to hide? Then on October 31st, Mother Jones, the left-wing newspaper, left-wing magazine,

00:18:02.260 breaks the story of the Steele dossier. Until this point, until October 31st, we don't know what the

00:18:07.200 Steele dossier is. We don't know about the Trump urine alleged tape thing that almost certainly

00:18:13.120 doesn't exist. We don't know about any of this. This has all been behind closed doors. Mother Jones

00:18:17.660 breaks the story on the Steele dossier, October 31st. The FBI almost immediately ends its relationship

00:18:23.200 with Christopher Steele. Why? Was that relationship not above board? Was that relationship a little bit

00:18:31.240 of a political hit job, a little too political insidery? Is that what that was about? If the

00:18:37.220 Christopher Steele relationship, the formal relationship with the FBI, was totally above

00:18:41.380 board, then why did the FBI instantly end it the minute that that became public? Timing, again, way

00:18:48.060 too suspect. Summer 2017 comes around. The Inspector General discovers the Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texts.

00:18:54.920 These are the texts between these two FBI agent lovers having an adulterous affair with one another

00:18:59.540 who say, we're going to stop Trump from becoming president. We're going to use the power of the

00:19:03.800 state to prevent him from becoming president. Only at this point does Mueller remove Strzok and Page

00:19:09.500 from the Russia investigation. Now, my question here, and we're told Robert Mueller is totally above

00:19:17.140 board. He is this unimpeachable guy. He's a shark. We know he's a shark. He's an excellent

00:19:22.920 investigator. He's going to go out. He's going to find every single thing. Are we really then supposed

00:19:27.480 to believe that Robert Mueller didn't know that his lead agent, the top agent on the investigation,

00:19:35.540 that he didn't know that that agent had an anti-Trump bias until he saw these texts, until

00:19:41.100 the texts become public because of the Inspector General. Bob Mueller is such a good investigator.

00:19:46.260 Bob Mueller, former head of the FBI. This guy couldn't discern that there was something going on

00:19:51.860 with his top agent. Very hard to believe. Really, a little too much for credibility.

00:19:59.000 Okay, final question. December 2017. Andy McCabe admits the FBI wiretap of Carter Page would not

00:20:09.280 have been approved if not for the Steele dossier. You've got this disgraced FBI agent Andy McCabe

00:20:15.040 admitting the FBI wiretap of former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, would not have been approved if

00:20:22.100 not for the Steele dossier, which means that the FBI, using that Steele dossier, colluded with the

00:20:28.560 DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, which funded the Steele dossier. And it means they colluded with

00:20:34.140 the Russians, by the way, because all of that information that was in the Steele dossier came

00:20:37.680 from the Russians. It's the only place it could have come from. It means that the DNC, the FBI,

00:20:42.960 Clinton, and the Russians were in bed together to go after Donald Trump. Who's investigating that?

00:20:49.000 Where's that investigation? We know that. Andy McCabe, FBI, ex-FBI agent now, admitted that.

00:20:56.660 Where is the investigation into that? Where are the investigations into those relationships?

00:21:01.480 Into the oars, into Fusion GPS? Those investigations seem a lot more pressing than how Paul Manafort

00:21:09.260 was able to buy nice suits in the year 2013. Or how Jerome Corsi is going to write another book

00:21:15.100 on some conspiracy. That seems a lot more pressing. And nobody's going after it, and we should. And this

00:21:21.040 is all Republicans should be talking about. I mean, listen, the inner turmoil of whether Donald Trump

00:21:27.600 still likes Jerome Corsi or if he read his book. I guess that's sort of interesting coffee shop

00:21:33.560 conversation. But the real questions here are all about this Mueller investigation, the prior Russia

00:21:41.320 investigation, how it all came about, and who was behind it. Because it stinks to high heaven,

00:21:47.360 and if Republicans are smart, they'll spend a lot of time harping on it.

00:21:51.960 Now back to President Trump. Back to non-Russia politics. I know they're constantly trying to

00:21:57.480 give this whiff of scandal all over the administration. That's fine. They can keep playing their little

00:22:02.360 scandal games. We are going to keep pushing good conservative policy. So President Trump has done

00:22:08.000 a very good job, obviously, a lot of conservative policy. The one big disappointment thus far has

00:22:12.920 been the wall. I want the wall. The wall has not been built. Build the wall. You ran on build the

00:22:18.700 wall. Build the wall won you the presidency. So build it already. President Trump is now threatening

00:22:24.580 a government shutdown if the Congress does not approve funding for the wall. Now what happened?

00:22:33.080 Congress and the White House have already passed most of the fiscal year 2019 budget. Most of that

00:22:40.100 funding has already gone through. What's awaiting going through is funding that relates to the State

00:22:45.640 Department, to the Justice Department, and to the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of

00:22:51.440 Homeland Security and the Justice Department are the crucial executive agencies that will deal with

00:22:56.520 illegal immigration and that will deal with the wall. Democrats don't want to fund the wall. 0.99

00:23:01.820 Obviously, some Republicans don't want to fund the wall. They're going to hold this up. They're

00:23:05.320 going to try to make a big issue of it. Donald Trump says he's going to shut down the government.

00:23:09.100 Now, conservatives get squishy. They don't want to shut down the government. They're very afraid of all

00:23:15.020 this. Shut it down. They absolutely should. Trump is threatening it. He should do it. He actually said

00:23:22.040 about this. He said, I don't do anything just for political gain, but I will tell you, politically

00:23:25.840 speaking, this issue is a total winner. People look at the border. They look at the rush to the

00:23:29.860 police. They look at the rock throwers and really hurting people. Three people, three very brave border

00:23:34.460 patrol folks. It's a tremendous issue and it's really needed. We have to have border security.

00:23:39.680 He's absolutely right. This is, even if he did things for political gain, you know, probably people do

00:23:44.520 that sometimes. He should do it. It's a big, big winner issue. And by the way, the Democrats won

00:23:49.940 the Congress. This is our last chance to get border wall funding out of Congress. We're not going to

00:23:55.760 get it back. Maybe we'll flip the house in 2020, but historically speaking, that's unlikely. This is

00:24:01.900 the last chance. Why not shut down the government over it? Shutting down the government is a win-win

00:24:06.340 for conservatives. If we shut it down to try to get good policy and we get the good policy out of it,

00:24:11.420 that's a win. If we shut it down and we fail to get the good policy, hey, at least we shut down the

00:24:16.540 government for a little bit. Works for me. Because when you shut down the government, they only shut

00:24:21.180 down non-essential services, which always raises the question, why do we have non-essential services?

00:24:28.260 Why does the government do non-essential things? Seems to me maybe we could keep that shut down

00:24:34.080 permanently. The rejoinder to this is that if we shut down the government, that's also going to

00:24:39.700 deplete funding for border security right now when you've got the caravan coming through.

00:24:43.820 Who cares? I know it's a big, the caravan is a real issue. Illegal immigration is a real issue.

00:24:49.400 We've got now record high illegal immigration, 2,000 people a day crossing the border. 2,000 people

00:24:55.060 is a drop in the bucket. How long is the government going to be shut down for? A day? Three days?

00:25:00.380 Two weeks? Okay. Two weeks? 28,000 people? We have upwards of 20 million illegal aliens in this

00:25:09.760 country. 28,000 people. To make a point, to drive that issue home is nothing. I mean, it's a drop in

00:25:16.880 the bucket. And by the way, if we shut down the government and then people start pouring over the

00:25:21.980 border, that only helps us politically. Because people see how awful that issue is. It brings it

00:25:26.360 back to the consciousness. And if it works, we get to build the wall. That's a win-win. This is a

00:25:31.060 no-brainer. Shut it down. We have much more to get to. We have got Ivanka Trump's emails. Democrats

00:25:38.300 are trying to compare Ivanka to Hillary. It's not a great comparison. I'm going to be very polite,

00:25:45.580 and I'm not going to tell the jokes that write them. No, I'm not going to do it. Also, a woman in 1.00

00:25:50.600 Texas is trying to castrate her six-year-old son, and John Bolton is right about everything,

00:25:55.540 as is usually the case. But before we get to all that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook

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00:26:27.220 tiers tumbler, and that is very important. Look, the Mueller investigation is scary.

00:26:32.500 He's going after Trump. The Democrats are all going after Trump. Trump is going after. It's a

00:26:36.940 little scary. But when that Mueller investigation comes back and they don't get anything, they got

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00:27:00.420 Ivanka's emails. Oh, no. They've got us now. Oh, the Democrat. You know the Democrat,

00:27:05.620 they get so excited on every little stupid issue. They think, oh, we've got you now. They wear those 1.00

00:27:09.800 shirts. They say, it's Mueller time. Cool. Cool guy. Yeah. Look great. It's, yeah, we got him.

00:27:16.160 This is the end of the Trump presidency. How many times have they said this is the end of the Trump

00:27:19.360 presidency? For about four times a day since November 9th, 2016. Now they're saying that

00:27:25.220 Ivanka Trump, who is not only Trump's daughter, but a staffer in the White House,

00:27:29.660 is guilty of the same thing Hillary Clinton's guilty of because she used her personal email 0.99

00:27:34.280 account to carry on some government business. Here's Ivanka explaining herself. 1.00

00:27:39.460 I have to ask you about your emails.

00:27:41.100 It has come to light that early in the administration, you used your private email

00:27:46.560 for White House business. Your father had taken Hillary Clinton to task for this. So how did you

00:27:52.920 wind up in a similar situation?

00:27:55.020 Well, there really is no equivalency. All of my emails that relate to any form of government work,

00:28:02.000 which was mainly scheduling and logistics and managing the fact that I have a home life and a work life,

00:28:07.840 are all part of the public record. They're all stored on the White House system. So everything

00:28:13.540 has been preserved. Everything's been archived. There just is no equivalency between the two things.

00:28:20.400 There is no comparison. There actually is no equivalency. I think the left maybe genuinely

00:28:26.060 thinks there is, but it's because they never understood the Hillary Clinton scandal in the first

00:28:30.000 place. The Hillary Clinton scandal is not that she used her personal email account sometimes

00:28:35.460 to send emails. Virtually everybody does that in the government. Donald Trump uses his cell phone

00:28:41.800 sometimes. When he shouldn't use his cell phone, he carries it on him. People are worried that people

00:28:46.120 can listen in. Colin Powell did this. He used a private email account. John Kerry used a private

00:28:50.920 email account. But we didn't go after all of those guys in the way that we went after Hillary Clinton. 0.82

00:28:55.160 Why? Because the email account itself is not the problem. If Hillary were using a Gmail account even, 1.00

00:29:01.880 that wouldn't really be the problem. The problem is not that Hillary was using a private email 1.00

00:29:06.320 account. It's that she was using a private email server. When she was appointed Secretary of State,

00:29:11.780 she set up a private email server in her home that would store all of those emails. Why would she go

00:29:18.160 to the trouble of doing that? It was a completely unsecured server. The emails would have been much

00:29:22.260 safer on government servers. She did it to avoid public disclosure laws. She did it to avoid federal

00:29:28.440 record keeping laws. She did it to burn the records of whatever business dealings she was doing while 1.00

00:29:34.880 she was Secretary of State. And what business dealings was she doing? Well, we know a few of

00:29:39.080 them. We know that the Saudi regime gave her at least $10 million, maybe $25 million when she was

00:29:45.320 Secretary of State. That's a bribe. That is pay for play. They gave money to that foundation. Why did

00:29:50.460 they do it? Because the Saudi royal family is so charitable out of the goodness of their heart.

00:29:55.040 Saudi Arabia, the greatest exporter of radical Islamic terrorism in the world. Saudi Arabia,

00:30:01.580 the royal family that just chopped up that Islamist guy in Turkey, that cut him up while he was alive.

00:30:07.000 I don't think that they're the sweetest, most charitable people in the world. They were paying

00:30:11.180 to play. They were bribing the Secretary of State. So what else was going on? We know that Hillary Clinton

00:30:17.420 was involved in approving the sale of uranium to Russian interests while she was Secretary of State,

00:30:23.620 while her foundation, her slush fund, was receiving a ton of money from those very interests.

00:30:29.660 What else? What else was she doing? We don't know. Because not only did she avoid record keeping laws 0.99

00:30:36.340 and federal record laws, she then burned the server. She bleached it. She completely wiped it so that 1.00

00:30:42.100 nobody could get in there and look at those emails. By the way, you can never permanently delete

00:30:48.680 anything. It's very hard to actually delete files. So another question, we've been told that maybe

00:30:54.400 there are some copies of the emails, maybe there aren't. Why aren't we getting those emails?

00:30:58.780 Why aren't we digging that up? We really probably should be digging that up. And she would joke

00:31:03.560 about it. She was so flippant. She was asked by a journalist, shockingly, a journalist asked her a

00:31:08.560 tough question. And they said, did you wipe your server? And she said, ha ha ha, what? Wipe it like with a

00:31:13.580 cloth? No, wipe it like with bleach bit so that you can cover up the evidence of your corruption

00:31:20.020 and the bribes that you took when you were in our government. That's what it was. The issue is the

00:31:25.380 pay for play. The issue is the corruption. The issue is trying to hide from the American people.

00:31:29.760 Ivanka's emails sent on whatever server they were sent on are all there. We can find them. You can file

00:31:37.300 your Freedom of Information Act request, and you will be able to get those emails. Try filing a FOIA

00:31:43.060 request for Hillary Clinton's emails. Get back to me when you got them. Let me know. Let me know how

00:31:46.940 that turns out. In Texas, in Texas, a mother is trying to castrate her six-year-old son. This is

00:31:54.740 a truly horrific story, really awful child abuse, and a bizarre situation. So this woman in Texas is

00:32:02.020 forcing her six-year-old son to pretend to be a girl. I guess the mother and father are separated.

00:32:07.440 So when the child, when the son is with the mother, the mother insists that the son identifies 0.64

00:32:14.380 as a girl. Six years old. When I was six years old, I was Batman. Six years old, the son identifies

00:32:21.060 as a girl. So now she's forcing him to be like a girl, where it gets a little weird. Because I have

00:32:27.460 no doubt that a six-year-old kid has delusions. We've all had delusions. But when the kid is with the

00:32:32.240 father, the father is saying that the son insists on dressing like a boy and going by male pronouns

00:32:39.780 and being a boy. So who's telling the truth? You never know, and it takes two to tango. You never

00:32:44.720 know if the mother or father is telling the truth. But we know that the mother is dressing this little

00:32:48.780 boy as a girl and enrolled him in school as Luna at age five, five or six. According to the father,

00:32:57.960 quote, the boy violently refuses to wear girls' clothes at my home and identifies as a boy. So

00:33:05.700 in this situation, you've got a six-year-old boy. The mother says he's really a girl. The father says

00:33:10.120 he's really a boy. How do you think the courts are going to come down on this? Oh, they might take

00:33:16.360 away the father's custody rights to the kid and the rights to ever see that kid again. Of course,

00:33:21.040 because we're in 2018, because reality doesn't exist anymore. That's what's happening. The father is

00:33:26.540 being accused of child abuse for refusing to call the boy a girl. But the boy doesn't want to be

00:33:33.080 called a girl, apparently. The father is legally barred from discussing sexuality and gender with

00:33:40.180 his own son. And when the son is at his house, he has to offer the son boy's clothing and girl's

00:33:47.020 clothing. Now, again, this is where it gets a little weird. When the son is at the father's house,

00:33:54.200 apparently, the son always chooses the boy's clothing. He doesn't want to be dressed up like

00:33:58.700 a girl. But the father still can't discuss it with him. If he discusses it with him, he's going

00:34:03.880 to lose custody of his son. Or lose any visiting rights to his son, rather. Where is this all

00:34:09.800 coming from? The mother is forcing the little boy to go see an activist, political activist,

00:34:16.420 therapist, who is encouraging the boy to pretend to be a girl. And so is the boy, what is it? Is it the

00:34:23.220 mother is totally coercing the boy to put on a dress sometimes? Maybe. Is it that the activist

00:34:32.640 therapist is encouraging the boy to identify as a girl? Yeah, maybe, probably. But how do we decide?

00:34:39.580 How do we know what the reality is here? There's only one guide to the reality, which is the boy is a

00:34:46.100 boy. He is not a girl. Period. That's it. That's how we know the father's right. We don't know what 0.85

00:34:52.980 the boy says to the father. We don't know what the boy says to the mother. We don't know what the

00:34:55.560 mother... We don't know any of that. The way that we know that the father is 100% right, and the mother

00:35:00.340 and this horrible therapist are 100% wrong, is that the boy is a boy and not a girl. The way that we know

00:35:08.720 that this father should have full custody of his son 100% of the time, and then this mother and

00:35:13.440 therapist should be in prison or in mental institutions, is that the boy is a boy. What

00:35:19.740 do the mother and the therapist want to do? They want to shoot him full of hormones, prevent him

00:35:23.540 from going through puberty, and ruin his life. That is horrific. That should be a crime. These

00:35:30.240 people should be sent to prison for a long time, at least. Or a mental institution, because you'd have

00:35:35.420 to be insane to try to castrate a six-year-old boy and turn him into a girl. He isn't a boy, 0.95

00:35:40.300 he is a girl. This is a big issue in our culture. We make fun of this transgenderism ideology. We 1.00

00:35:49.280 don't make fun of the people who suffer from it, and a grown man thinks he's a woman. We

00:35:53.380 don't make fun of him. We have compassion for him, but we make fun of the ideology because

00:35:58.260 it's patently absurd. We know that men are not women. We know that women are not men. We

00:36:02.660 know that there is such a thing as sexual difference. We make fun of that, and it's very funny, and

00:36:06.680 we can laugh about it. But the rubber meets the road when you're talking about a little

00:36:10.480 six-year-old boy whose life is being ruined because of a horrific criminal mother and criminal

00:36:15.760 gender ideologue therapist who are trying to shoot him up full of hormones and castrate 0.92

00:36:21.420 him. Absolutely outrageous. And this is the logical conclusion of a culture and of a society 0.99

00:36:28.800 that indulge in delusion. Because here's what happens. This is how we get to this point.

00:36:35.060 We are walking down the street. We're in 2018. Everybody's just really cool, and if it feels

00:36:40.520 good, do it. I just feel like this, man, and I feel like this. Okay, we're here. And then

00:36:44.900 we all know somebody who I know. I know a couple people who have gender confusion, and they say,

00:36:51.760 I'm confused about my gender. I'm a man, but I feel like a woman. I'm really a woman on the

00:36:55.240 inside. And our first instinct is to have compassion for our friend. We say, oh, gosh,

00:37:00.420 well, he says, can you please call me a woman? Can you please use the female pronouns? And

00:37:05.780 we say, well, I really like my friend, and I don't want to be mean to him. And if he's

00:37:10.420 asking me to do him a favor, I'll do him the favor. So on this personal level, I will call

00:37:15.260 my male friend a woman because that seems like the polite thing to do. It seems like the polite 1.00

00:37:20.700 thing. Okay, maybe it is polite. Maybe it is nice. But it's not compassionate.

00:37:25.240 Because when you indulge in that delusion, you accept the premise that is not true,

00:37:29.900 that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. And when you accept that premise,

00:37:34.740 then why can't an 18-year-old physically mutilate himself? A confused, psychologically afflicted

00:37:43.300 18-year-old boy, why can't he mutilate himself to more closely resemble a woman? Even though that 0.95

00:37:49.400 surgery, that mutilation will have no effect on his anxiety, on his depression, on his likelihood

00:37:55.040 of suicide, it'll have no effect whatsoever. Even though many people who undergo that surgery

00:37:59.360 have deep regret afterward. A writer, Walt Heyer, is writing about this right now in The Federalist.

00:38:05.920 Even though, why not? Why can't that 18-year-old do it? And if an 18-year-old can do it,

00:38:12.000 why can't a 16-year-old do it? Actually though, what if we could prevent puberty altogether and the

00:38:19.160 development of secondary sex characteristics? Then probably it would be much better for people 1.00

00:38:24.160 who have gender confusion, right? Probably it would reduce their rates of anxiety and risk of suicide.

00:38:30.500 I mean, it doesn't. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that delaying puberty or blocking

00:38:37.340 puberty altogether reduces rates of anxiety or depression or likelihood of suicide in people

00:38:42.200 with gender confusion. Zilch. Zero scientific evidence. But you know, probably that's true. 1.00

00:38:46.660 So shouldn't we do it? Shouldn't we indulge in the insane delusions of six-year-old children and then

00:38:52.360 have our six-year-old children encourage them to mutilate their bodies and ruin their lives,

00:38:59.240 make a big spectacle of it, and then rob them of their fathers because their father says that the

00:39:03.080 boy is a boy and allows the boy who says he's a boy to be a boy. That's how we get to that point.

00:39:08.820 And it's not a far leap. So then when the left says that the right is being uncompassionate,

00:39:14.540 that we're not being kind to transgender people, that, you know, it's not kind to shoot up six-year-old 0.96

00:39:21.820 kids with a bunch of hormones and ruin their lives and mutilate their bodies and confuse them and rob 0.98

00:39:27.060 them of their fathers. That's not kind either. So if we're talking about kind and compassionate

00:39:31.520 and nice, let's be clear there. Now, the left-wing people who want to indulge in this gender ideology, 1.00

00:39:39.200 I think most of them have good intentions. Some of them have bad intentions. Some of them

00:39:43.040 are true ideologues who want to abolish gender altogether for their own political purposes.

00:39:47.800 Most of them, I think, have very good intentions. They want to be nice to people. Okay, the road to

00:39:53.260 hell is paved with good intentions. And if mutilating a little boy and confusing a little boy and robbing him

00:39:59.860 of his father because you don't want to allow him to be a boy, you'd rather him be a girl and wear dresses. 0.93

00:40:05.480 If that isn't right down the path to the very center of hell, I don't know what is.

00:40:11.240 I want to end on a good note today, and I want to talk about how great John Bolton is.

00:40:16.700 John Bolton was in a press conference yesterday, and he was asked about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

00:40:22.860 Remember Jamal Khashoggi? He is that Islamist Muslim Brotherhood apologist who was a Saudi regime

00:40:29.600 insider, and then he came to America and wrote a couple columns for the Washington Post,

00:40:34.420 and the left are pretending that he is a journalist, and he was killed in a Turkish embassy by the Saudi

00:40:40.180 government. John Bolton is asked about this killing, about why he's not outraged, why we're not ending our

00:40:47.180 relationship with Saudi Arabia, why he hasn't listened to the audio tape. And John Bolton

00:40:51.000 just gives us a little beautiful glimmer of sanity. Here he is.

00:40:55.820 So let me take the question of the tape first. No, I haven't listened to it.

00:41:00.160 And I guess I should ask you, why do you think I should? What do you think I'll learn from it?

00:41:04.880 Well, you're the national security advisor. You might have access to that sort of intelligence.

00:41:09.340 How many in this room speak Arabic?

00:41:11.400 You don't have access to an interpreter.

00:41:12.640 Well, you want me to listen to it? What am I going to learn from, I mean, if they were speaking

00:41:16.860 Korean, I wouldn't learn any more from it either. 1.00

00:41:19.000 The interpreter would be able to tell you what's going on.

00:41:20.300 Well, then I can read a transcript, too.

00:41:22.900 Okay. So you don't think it's important. Have you heard that at the national security

00:41:26.160 officer? I'm just trying to make the point that everybody who says, why don't you listen

00:41:29.580 to the tape, unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?

00:41:32.740 Have you read Arabic?

00:41:33.900 Really?

00:41:35.140 The president has spoken to our position on this issue. He's spoken very clearly, and that

00:41:42.000 is our position. Now, tell me the other questions.

00:41:44.020 Do you want to be seen in Haspel from sharing the information with members of Congress?

00:41:50.820 Absolutely right. What a ridiculous question. They say, have you listened to the audio tape 0.99

00:41:54.760 of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi? Apparently, the Turks were bugging the embassy or something.

00:41:59.800 So we've got the audio tape. And he says, well, what would I learn from that? That's the real

00:42:03.960 question he's asking. He's sort of telling a little joke and saying, I don't speak Arabic.

00:42:07.620 But the broader question is, what would I learn from that audio tape that I wouldn't already

00:42:12.720 know? And they say, well, it was a brutal killing. You say, yeah, uh-huh. Right. Well,

00:42:18.380 it was used as an outrage. And for some reason, it's Trump's fault. And we should blow up our

00:42:22.100 relationship with Saudi Arabia and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What happened?

00:42:25.780 Because the media narrative is that the Saudi government, this is what they want you to

00:42:29.800 believe. The Saudi government killed, murdered in cold blood while he was alive, cut him up. 0.51

00:42:37.040 An American resident, they want you to believe resident is the same as citizen, an American

00:42:41.740 resident who's a journalist, who just wants democracy and liberalization. And they cut him

00:42:47.620 up in cold blood. And this should be an hour. We should go to war with Saudi Arabia. That's what 1.00

00:42:51.620 they want you to believe. What really happened? He's not a journalist. I guess technically he's a

00:42:57.000 journalist in that he wrote some things for the Washington Post. He wrote some things for

00:43:00.500 different newspapers. His actual career, Jamal Khashoggi, was as a Saudi regime insider. And

00:43:06.800 unfortunately for him, a different part of the Saudi royal family than he was allied with

00:43:11.520 has come up. And he's been a big critic of the current crown prince of Saudi Arabia,

00:43:17.800 Mohammed bin Salman. Why is he criticizing him? He thinks that Mohammed bin Salman is too easy

00:43:23.840 toward Israel. That he's too pro-Israel. He wishes that the Saudi government were more anti-Israel

00:43:28.840 because since he was a teenage boy, Jamal Khashoggi was associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical

00:43:35.960 organization in the Middle East that would wreak absolute havoc on the Saudi kingdom and on the 0.98

00:43:40.960 entire region. So he was a regime insider. He worked for the regime. He was a spy. He's all these

00:43:46.760 things. He hung out with Osama bin Laden in the 80s. There's a photo of him holding an RPG

00:43:51.660 in Afghanistan. He wept. He admitted this. He wept over the death of Osama bin Laden when U.S.

00:43:58.460 forces killed him. He's an Islamist. He's a apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood. And he was 0.97

00:44:05.540 killed by rival forces in the Middle East, the Saudi royal government. Okay, is that to say it's a good 1.00

00:44:12.720 thing that they cut him up while he was alive, that they assassinated this guy who was undermining the

00:44:17.260 regime? No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's par for the course. Saudi Arabia does stuff like

00:44:21.580 this all the time. All of these Islamist governments do. They constantly are killing 1.00

00:44:27.380 political opponents, doing horrific things. There's a part of Saudi Arabia that's called 0.59

00:44:33.940 Chop Chop Square because they behead people there. Yeah, what's unusual about this? The reason that

00:44:40.420 they're trying to make a story out of it is because they want to go after Donald Trump. They want to

00:44:44.620 pretend that it's Donald Trump's fault. There's nothing new here. What's the lesson? People have been

00:44:48.600 getting very upset because I've been saying this is not a story. And they say, how dare you? He was

00:44:53.080 a person. We'll have compassion. What do you think? You think it's okay? No. My conclusion is if you

00:44:59.020 pal around with Islamists, bad things are going to happen. That's what you can learn. You don't need 1.00

00:45:04.240 to listen to the tape of him being murdered. You don't need to listen to the tape of him talking

00:45:09.040 about how much he liked Osama bin Laden. You don't need to listen. Here's what you need to know.

00:45:12.900 If you pal around with Islamists, bad things are going to happen. That's a fact check. True. I want 1.00

00:45:18.460 Snopes to fact check that. Okay, that's our show today. I'll be speaking tonight at Embry Riddle.

00:45:23.940 I'm here still in Florida, and then I'll be flying back soon. So if you're in town, come check it out.

00:45:28.600 We're gonna have a lot of fun. Otherwise, I will see you tomorrow. Get your mailbag questions in.

00:45:32.400 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 28, 2018

Ep. 259 - 9 Questions For Robert Mueller

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